Barack Obama Time?

27 December 2006 |permalink | email article

The Democratic Senator from Illinois has burst like a rocket over the American political landscape.

His book, ‘The Audacity of Hope’, has been atop the bestseller list for weeks with a refreshing proposal that Americans move beyond their political… read full story

2007: A New Year

26 December 2006 |permalink | email article

Political pundits make their predictions; people of good faith agree or disagree; the search for justice, peace and happiness remains unrequited. Consider the value of mindfulness in a turbulent world:

And now let us believe in the long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been. 
—The poet Rainer Maria Rilke

To return to the present is to be in contact with life. Life can be found only in the present moment, because the past no longer is and the future has not yet come. 
—The Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh

 

To surge or not surge?

19 December 2006 |permalink | email article

Who thought that W., long in denial about reality, would ever admit for the first time today the U.S. is not winning the war in Iraq?

Next to his fateful decision to invade, the president now faces his most… read full story

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